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Milankovich cycle

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Milankovich cycle

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Also known as Milankovitch cycles

periodic changes in the orbital movements of the earth

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Encyclopedic overview

Past and future Milankovitch cycles via VSOP modelGraphic shows variations in five orbital elements:   Axial tilt or obliquity (ε).

Eccentricity (e).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Milankovich cycle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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